PopCharTired of searching and remembering keyboard combinations for umlauts and other special characters? Do you know anyone with a name that contains special characters or umlauts? Perhaps you have a sister-in-law who's called Helene? Or a colleague whose name is Bergstrom, and who insists that the dots above the o can't be ignored? If you've ever had to type their names, you'll know how tedious it can be to type these umlauts and special characters.

Fortunately, there is a solution for this kind of problem: PopChar - the user-friendly character map. It is easy to use and even easier to access, because this character map sits quietly in your user tray. PopChar makes "typing" of unusual characters easy without having to remember keyboard combinations. Whenever you need a special character, it is there - no matter what application you're currently using. Click the "P" in the menu bar to display a table of characters. Select the desired character and it instantly appears in your document.

Main Features

Inserts special characters right into your document - no font cheat sheet, no copy & paste, no need to remember keyboard combinations

Much easier to use than the standard character map: click and insert selected special and foreign characters

Simple to use: Just click and select

Search for characters by name, by Unicode number or by simply pasting some text from your document into the search field.

Magnifier tool provides an enlarged view to see all details of characters including their position relative to the baseline.

-PopChar has been tested to run smoothly on Windows 8.-PopChar now supports Unicode 6.2.-The slider in the status bar now shows whether zoom is above or below default value.-The mouse wheel now always controls the PopChar window, even when the focus is in the search text.-Security features like ASLR (address space layout randomization) have been enabled.

PopChar and its installer are now digitally signed to guarantee the authenticity of PopChar. When ligatures are inserted, they now also show up as recent characters. Ligatures can now also be defined as favorite characters. The representation of characters that are not available in any installed font has been improved. The context menu for ligatures has been extended to add/remove them to/from recent and favorite characters. Changed the Alphabet layout such that the Romanian language now contains the letters s and t with a comma below rather than a cedilla.

PopChar now supports Unicode 11.0. Option for remembering the selected font for all applications (instead of separately per application). PopChar now allows to reset all custom font sizes. HTML characters can now be inserted in both decimal and hexadecimal notation. Highlighting favorite characters outside the favorites block can now be turned on/off. Fixed a bug where highlighting of favorite characters did not work in all situations. The display of @fonts is now optional. Improved preferences dialog. Diagnostic messages now contain name of font that may have caused problems. Fixed minor bug in diagnostic messages (newlines). Fixed optical glitch in displaying HTML codes. Clearer instructions in auto-generated support e-mail messages.